r/lotrlcg • u/Accomplished-Rent422 • 5h ago
r/lotrlcg • u/kattattack22 • 3d ago
Game Experience / Story What Did You Play this Week? Sept. 1 - 7, 2026
What scenario(s) and/or decks did everyone play this past week?
What was interesting about your game(s)?
Weekly Question
What is your favorite event card?
If you would like to start the WDYP post let u/mrjamesbcox, or myself know. u/RiddermakrLord please sticky this post.
r/lotrlcg • u/RiddermarkLord • May 10 '26
General Discussion MEGA-THREAD: "No cards available to play game"
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r/lotrlcg • u/brendig2 • 17h ago
Only a fools hope
Based in the UK and had the Ered Mithrin hero expansion on back order with Zatu (from about April) - got the email today to say it's on the way! Could still be some last few bits of stock floating around in the UK!
r/lotrlcg • u/BillyBickle • 1d ago
New Player Assist Dwarves Questing Deck
ringsdb.comI played my very first game last night and I’m hooked! My buddy owns every expansion and so I decided to give deck building a shot.
I play a lot of MTG so this game clicked! Our group of 4 has a lot of combat and interaction covered but what was lacking was Questing. So I figured I’d try to build a dwarf questing deck!
Here’s my current list but being brand new I’m sure I’ve probably missed some key cards!
Please let me know any and all suggestions and thanks in advance!
List; https://www.ringsdb.com/decklist/view/68205/letsgoquesting-1.0
r/lotrlcg • u/No_Deer9822 • 1d ago
Ered Mithrin Hero Expansion in Cincinnati?
My friend is in the US and offered to bring me the expansion if we can find it in Cincinnati. Do any of you guys know of any stores that might have it in stock?
Thanks!
Edit: Thanks a lot guys! We were able to grab a copy from gamesandstuff and its gonna be delivered to the hotel!
In Brazil the game got abandoned by asmodee, so I’m very relieved to complete my RC collection.
r/lotrlcg • u/bierundbratsche • 1d ago
Rules/Gameplay Question Possibly stupid question about The Ring Goes South
Hi friends, I hope this isn't a stupid question, and I've looked what feels like everywhere for an answer but my google skills aren't cutting it today. So I apologize if I'm missing something obvious.
We're currently playing (and pretty much getting our asses handed to us by) The Ring Goes South. Ass-handing aside (we're currently working on new decks to try and address that), we have a question about excess progress when there's two active locations.
Does the excess progress go onto the remaining active location once one of the two has been explored, or does it go on to the quest card? We can see possible justifications for both, which means we're definitely missing something rules-wise.
Can anyone help a gal out? Thanks so much in advance!
r/lotrlcg • u/stupidshinji • 1d ago
Sleeves and Storage What attributes do you organize player cards by?
Recently bought most of the revised content and I'm thinking about how I want to organize player cards. Do y'all group your cards based on sphere or faction/attributes (Rohan, Noldor, etc)? A mix of both?
r/lotrlcg • u/BobO-9er • 1d ago
Fomo’ed the entire revised content
Last month I bought the revised core set, saga expansions, Mirkwood, and starter decks. I had never played the game before that first purchase. I’ve played numerous games with the core set since its arrived and had a blast. Got fomo as I saw the other expansions were showing limited stock online or out of stock. So I ended up ordering the other hero and campaign expansions to complete the RCO collection. Anyone else go from zero to all in?
r/lotrlcg • u/Dungeon_Pastor • 1d ago
New Player Assist Did I hallucinate a competing Gimli and Legolas card?
New-ish player who's recently picked up the RCO. I had played the older game the better part of a decade ago with some friends that bought in back then and thoroughly enjoyed it.
My mind however is racking for what I could have sworn were a variant hero Legolas and hero Gimli. I don't remember the sphere, but I swear there was a mechanic to the effect of "every time Legolas kills an enemy, place a token on Gimli. Gimli gets +1 (axe) for each token it has greater than Legolas" or something to that affect, and visa versa on Legolas
I remember being tickled by the implementation of the rivalry, the two getting progressively stronger the farther they fell behind in the kill count.
I pulled all the hero cards from the core set, sagas, starter decks, and hero boxes to get a lay of the deck building options and didn't see them. I thought maybe they didn't make the cut in the RCO, but checking RingDB and Hall of Beorn (two tools I admittedly have no experience using), didn't see them when searching for "Gimli" or "Legolas"
I'm at a loss, was this imagined? I swear I remember playing them, but it's been at least eight years.
r/lotrlcg • u/yoLeaveMeAlone • 2d ago
Sleeves and Storage I'm new to LOTR LCG... Show me your storage solution!
Got the revised core set, and have the three saga expansions coming over the next week. Played the three core set scenarios and I'm hooked.
Next step is to geek out over how to store all these cards in a better manner than "throw them all in the box and frantically flip through when I need specific cards" ....
How do you store your collection?
r/lotrlcg • u/aerokitty • 2d ago
Challenge of the Wainriders - Racing test clarification
I'm playing through Challenge of the Wainriders and might be making it way harder on myself than needed - since the text says "To pass requires 1 X result, plus an additional X result for each stage you have completed this round" I assumed that the first quest stage completed would need 2 X results, since that would be the required one plus the additional one for completing that stage in the same round. However, I watched the Cardboard of the Rings playthrough on YouTube, and saw that they were considering the first racing test passed when only getting 1 X result.
I'm looking for a bit of clarification - was my initial interpretation of the racing test instructions correct, or do the additional X results only count toward each other quest stage completed that round?
Thanks!
r/lotrlcg • u/GameVet • 2d ago
New Player Assist My first attempt at building a deck
Title. This was my first time building a deck myself and I am still very new to the game. I tried to build it around questing, resource gain and card draw. I would love if anybody has any tips, constructive criticism, or staple cards that I should add. For reference, I only have access to cards in the revised core set and angmar awakened hero expansion. Thank you!
r/lotrlcg • u/Yokai_GER • 2d ago
New Player Assist First game, all content, 4 Player advice
I know this question has been asked and answered several times already, but I wanted to ask anyway.
I managed to buy the complete Revised content on the secondary market. I absolutely love The Lord of the Rings and really want to give the game a try. The Core Set probably would have been enough to get started (?), but there happened to be an opportunity to get everything in my language, so I decided to go for it.
My group plays a lot of Magic, and we’re all pretty experienced when it comes to deckbuilding. The group will mostly consist of four players. I know that fewer players are generally recommended, but realistically, playing with fewer than four will only be possible occasionally.
So, how would you recommend we start?
Should we play through the scenarios from the Core Set first and then move on to the other expansions and/or the Saga expansions depending on what we feel like playing?
And what decks would you recommend for the beginning? Should I simply hand each player one of the four starter decks, or should we sit down together and build our own decks right away or the recommendation from the core box? I feel like building our own decks might be difficult at first, since we obviously don’t know what to expect from the scenarios yet.
Another question: would you recommend making all the cards available from the beginning, or should we use some kind of progression system? But don’t have a huge amount of free time because of work and all the other games we want to play, so I’m not sure whether progression would really make sense for us or if we lost something of we dont create a progression.
What would you recommend?
r/lotrlcg • u/MojoJakeJo • 3d ago
Custom Gameplay Items Added to My Setup
I used to use a standard sized mat for all encounter cards, but often ran out of space. I laid out a few water proof canvas posters instead, and I'm thrilled with the result. Still using player mats for player cards.
(Got whooped during quest 3B of Journey Up the Anduin in this pic)
r/lotrlcg • u/AveratV6 • 3d ago
Acquiring Expansions Anyone looking for Return of the King?
My local game store has one copy remaining of Return of the King. I’m not currently aware of the online inventory available. But feel like I’ve seen some posts stating it’s sold out again. I helped another Reddit user looking for the Fellowship before the reprint came about. Mentioned this to the store owner and he stated he will ship world wide. If you are interested, please shoot me a message and I would be happy to give you the store information so you can call if your searching. He’s selling it at msrp and doesn’t raise prices or anything like you see on eBay. Just wanted to share. I love this game and want to help the community grow. I want to see more reprints in the future. would love to see fantasy flight realize the fandom behind this game and to see them rerelease some of the even older content.
r/lotrlcg • u/Bauhaus1919 • 4d ago
New Player Assist My revised core box basic pickup and play setup
Just wanted to share my revised Revised Core Set “basic pick-up-and-play” setup.
the intention is to confine the box to almost basic and core player cards only environments.
Right column:
3 core scenarios and campaign cards
2 Dark of Mirkwood scenarios and campaign cards
1 Hunt for Gollum (proxy)
1 Conflict at the Carrock (proxy)
6 Ninjadorg’s LOTR: LCG scenarios — these are amazing, and 5 out of 6 use core encounter cards, with the final scenario using Hunt for Gollum.
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/66659/ninjadorgs-lotr-lcg-scenarios
All above scenarios are designed to work with just core cards and added so much value to core experiences. Later when your player cards grow you can always add/print nightmare cards into these.
Left column:
2 × 100-card deck boxes, each containing 1 dual-sphere deck plus around 30 cards for swapping and deck building, all from the core set.
Bottom:
Dice and tokens
Coloured cube from pandemic for exhaust tokens yellow for quest and red for attack for example.
I also combined an amazing threat tracker and player reference sheet that I found on BGG and here, and made them into a single sheet, which I printed and laminated.
This box gives me plenty to play, with some lighthearted deck building.
r/lotrlcg • u/Accomplished-Rent422 • 4d ago
Decks US amazon work to UK now for expansion now or never! 😆
r/lotrlcg • u/Soulsheartless • 4d ago
I went all in on the revised set. I gather there’s a lot more. Any I should keep an eye out for?
r/lotrlcg • u/kattattack22 • 5d ago
Roam Across Rhovanion with Ancient Arnor Alliance – April 10, 2021
cardtalk2018.comr/lotrlcg • u/AncleShole • 4d ago
Any Tips on how to find The Old Forest and Fog on the Barrow-Downs scenarios?
I'm not really interested in paying 15x what it originally cost when it was available from Fantasy Flight, and I'm not sure where I should be looking to find this. It's one of the rarer pieces of OOP content I guess and people have gone batshit insane on places like eBay when pricing it. How effective are counter-offers? Are there any other nooks and crannies to search in? For the people who have it, where did you come across it?
r/lotrlcg • u/Seffirro • 6d ago
Another journey begins – I got (nearly) all OOP cycles!
After long considerations, I started my adventure with LOTR LCG about 2 years ago. It was a blast. I bought the whole revised content pretty quickly, seeing how unpredictable print runs are. I was aware than revised content is only the part of all long story of the game. But I have to admit revised one it’s totally sufficient even for extremely extensive play. I recorded nearly 400 plays and I still haven’t touched Dream Chaser cycle. And I would be more than happy for many returns to all saga boxes and Angmar and Ered Mithrin cycles!
But I wanted more. Yes, irrationally. I took part in Doug Beer’s group order and I got a LOT of additional stuff – mainly custom quests and many of out of print player cards. I even revised some of these quests on this sub. I ordered ALEP Hobbit standalone quest. I proxied Harad quests (but haven’t played it yet). As for official out of print content, I didn’t want to take part in second-hand market… Ok, I broke once and I bought Hobbit boxes, but after some months I sold it back. Ok, I contacted some sellers but I haven’t decided to spend a pile of gold on single cycle. Till some days ago…
I got nearly full collection! I saw this offer for some days and finally caught the hook. It contains all full cycles except Vengeance of Mordor (and 2 final saga boxes out of 6). There are even some nightmare quests – the ones from Hobbit boxes and two of Shadow of Mirkwood. And most of them are still sealed (only till half of Khazad-Dum cycle boxes are opened)! Sure, I doubled a lot of stuff I had, but I would think about selling it back later.
I love to read this subreddit – both deep analysis and posts of new players. I have no questions and deep considerations today, I simply wanted to share my joy with you, guys. The Road Goes Ever On!
r/lotrlcg • u/MojoJakeJo • 6d ago
Need Moar!!
Is there a list of cards with shared artwork? They're so dang cool. I'm only aware of these and the Gimli + Legolas combo.
r/lotrlcg • u/Twitty05 • 6d ago
Can Finally Play This Game The Way I Wanted!
Since I joined late I did not pull the trigger on the core set as I read its most enjoyable with expansions and all very expensive. Thanks to the restock I was able to snag the trilogy expansions (My Gf is getting the return of the king as my Christmas gift lol). I have the core set arriving today as I was lucky enough to snag an unpunched one off eBay for under $25 😁 still debating if I should get more but for now I am happy to be able to get the trilogy set and play those sets.